Ayahuasca-Enhanced Mastermind Programs

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Recent feature articles:

How does Ayahuasca 10x the impact of a business mastermind in a quarter of the time?

Michael Costuros, the founder of Entrepreneurs Awakening, explains how and why an Ayahuasca enhanced business mastermind not only gives you 10x the business value of a traditional mastermind but so much more.

How does Ayahuasca affect high functioning entrepreneurs?

For sometime now mainstream media has published articles looking at the healing effect Ayahuasca has on people who are struggling with various medical conditions.

Only recently has the press begun investigating why totally healthy, “type-A” individuals have been using Ayahuasca.

Since 2012, Entrepreneurs Awakening has been providing exclusive business mastermind programs for entrepreneurial leaders that include a 10-day trip to Peru to work with Ayahuasca.

Over the years, we developed a powerful preparation and integration method that enables our clients to accomplish two exceptional things.

Maximise Ayahuasca’s ability to remove the subconscious blocks that have been preventing them from realizing their full professional potential.

Integrate the insights from their Ayahuasca experience into their personal and professional life.

But before we tell you more about our secret sauce, let’s first learn a bit more about Ayahuasca.

Will Ayahuasca make you a more effective leader?

1 year after his retreat Craig says…
“I wasn’t totally clear on what I wanted, I just felt I needed to go and it would be revealed to me there…the experience showed me exactly what was holding me back in both my business and personal life. Within just one month after returning I’d used what I’d learned to deepen my relationships with my family, then later, with my business partners and staff, which surely was a factor in us having our most successful year ever.”

4 years after her retreat Jena says…“When I participated in the first Peru retreat back in 2012. Back then, despite all my great achievements, I still carried a sense of inadequacy. I feel more capable of giving my gifts to the world then ever before. Writing and publishing the book I have long wanted to birth is just one example!”

“Since the program I feel much more in line with my purpose. As a result, my business and I are more aligned and making risky decisions is easier…this has made me a much more effective mentor and leader.”

“As a CEO of a startup in hyper growth, I feared that the time away would hurt my business. What I discovered was a better understanding of who I am, and what I want to achieve; that led to a greater positive impact on my business than if I had stayed home and worked.”

– Bertram Meyer, Co-founder/CEO of Taulia, a leading fintech service platformwww.taulia.com

“Ayahuasca re-booted and de-fragged my brain. Virtually all that ayahuasca showed me was not what I expected, and yet it was exactly what I needed.”

“…This did more for my personal growth and transformation than any other method I have tried.”

– Robert Beinstock, Co-owner and COO of Carlin America Music Publishing, the largest privately-owned music publishing company in the world.www.carlinamerica.com

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But there is a dark side to the rise in demand.

In recent years, due to Ayahuasca’s life-enhancing effects and stories run in the New York Times, Men’s Journal, Elle, CNN, Scientific American, and even the Wall Street Journal, the global demand for Ayahuasca has outpaced the supply of qualified facilitators, (called Ayahuasqueros), that are available to lead safe, private, and truly life-changing experiences.

As a result, there are countless self-anointed Ayahuasqueros selling sub-par experiences to people who just don’t know any better.

In addition, there is a shortage of quality Ayahuasca brew, as the plants required to make it become harder to find and expert brewers are in high demand.

This and other factors, including privacy leaks, lack of thorough mental health screening and post-experience integration support, lead to the Ayahuasca nightmare stories found all over the web.

The New Yorker published an in-depth article on Ayahuasca, called “The Drug of Choice for the Age of Kale”. Even though the reporter interviews top experts before picking an Ayahuasquero to work with, she ended up choosing one who created a nightmare experience for her. Last year in Peru, people died while at Ayahuasca retreats lead by irresponsible Ayahuasqueros. These are just two examples of how difficult it has become to find truly world-class Ayahuasca experiences inside or outside of the US.

So how do you decide if Ayahuasca is even right for you?

How do you avoid a sub-par or worse, dangerous experience?

How do you find a world-class Ayahusquero serving top-shelf Ayahuasca?

We can help.

Over the last 5 years, we have developed the trust network, professional team, and expertise to deliver consistently life-changing Ayahuasca retreats especially designed to meet the needs of business leaders.

Which option is right for you?

If you are preparing for a journey with Ayahuasca, we can support your process…

"A year later, I realize that as a result of the mastermind component of this program I received advice and an introduction that enabled me to more than double the revenue, reach and impact of my business. I wasn't expecting that!"

Ricardo Amaringo now has over 40 years of experience as a traditional curandero and ayahuasquero. He is one of the most skilled Shipibo healers of his generation, having refined his skills through intensive dieting and arduous work. Ricardo has now developed a profound knowledge of medicinal plants, traditional Shipbo ayahuasca ceremony and icaros (traditional healing songs); and hopes to share traditional Shipibo healing with those who need it the most.

In early 2011, he opened Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual in order to share his work with the world. In the spirit of integration he has opened this center with the help of his Western partners, Canadian artist Cvita Mamic and Colombian-American integrative family physician Dr. Joe Tafur MD.

Ricardo Amaringo is a master curandero who treats his patients through traditional healing diets, plant medicine and ayahuasca ceremony. Ricardo is a gifted healer and a master of traditional ayahuasca ceremony, known for his powerfully healing icaros. He also trains and educates individuals interested in pursuing this healing path.

Co-founder and executive director of Entrepreneurs Awakening, Michael’s passion for peak experiences, consciousness exploration, transformation coaching, and startup leadership all coalesced for the first time in 2012 when he and co-founder Kim Iglinsky lead the first Machu Picchu Ayahuasca Mastermind.

Michael has been working with Ayahuasca in Peru since 2008 and has lead 8 Ayahuasca enhanced business mastermind programs since 2012. As a result of leading mover than 100 type-A innovators through the prep and integration process, Michael developed the EA Method, our unique approach to Ayahuasca prep and integration for high performing individuals.

In 2019, EA’s offerings will expand to include 1-1 Executive Awakening Coaching, A self-guided Ayahuasca prep and integration product, and a new mastermind program to take place in the Peruvian Amazon.

Lynn Belcher, L.Ac., MSTCM, Amazon Program Health & Wellness Guide

During past retreats, participants have been inspired to make transformative personal health changes. Unfortunately, without health coaching support few were able to realize their vision. This year will be different! You will have Lynn Belcher supporting your health and wellness during your time in Peru.

Lynn is a licensed Chinese medicine acupuncturist, health coach, and massage therapist who not long ago completed a month-long Ayahuasca retreat in the Amazon. Lynn will be conducting your health intake sessions, be with you in the Amazon to provide massage and acupuncture treatments, and be available to coach you upon your return.

In 2001, Lynn spent four months in a teaching exchange program in Shan Dong province, China where she taught English. While doing so, she immersed herself in the daily practice and study of Chinese medicine both in the school system and community, along with daily instruction in Tai Chi Chuan, Chinese philosophy, and Chinese language.

As qualified as Alex is in his role as a psychotherapist, it’s his unique experience with Ayahuasca that had me seek him out to co-facilitate the 2019 Amazon Mastermind program. Alex helped run the retreat program at the Blue Morpho Center for Shamanism and Ayahuasca in Peru for over two years. During that time he has assisted hundreds of people in intensive retreats like ours. He also apprenticed to become an ayahuasquero himself for two years full time in the Amazon. The group couldn’t be in better hands!

Alex is a licensed psychotherapist with 14 years of experience in helping people transform the psychological, spiritual and mental states that are no longer serving them so that they can live more fulfilling lives. “I am a firm believer that your most intractable psycho-spiritual problems offer the clues and hold the keys to their own resolution. As such, I hold a space of compassion and non-judgment for these delicate, vulnerable, and painful places so that they can be examined, understood, and eventually healed.”

How does Ayahuasca impact founders/CEOs and their leadership?

…and how might it impact YOURS?

Enter your info below to listen to an interview Michael Costuros conducted with 3 conventional founder/CEOs of 7- and 8-figure businesses. Hear each one share how ayahuasca influenced their leadership, their companies and their personal lives.

The interview takes place in front of a large audience at Burning Man 2018, which adds a layer of raw authenticity.

Listen to 3 Entrepreneurs Share How Ayahuasca Impacted Their Leadership

Whether your Ayahuasca experience is full of extraordinary insights, or intense darkness that leaves you confused, you want to have prep and professional integration support to get the most value out of your experience.

Without an expert guide to prepare you in the weeks leading up to the retreat, you will likely suffer unnecessary fears, and not meet Ayahuasca with the right most effective intentions.

Without integration support, you could lose up to 60% or more of the potential.

Why?

Your mindset and the topics you intend to focus on going into the retreat have a huge impact on the Ayahuasca experience you have. Like a genie offering you three wishes, you want to be sure you ask Ayahuasca for the right things.

When you return from your retreat, you return to your life as it was before your awakening. It’s very easy to slip back into your old habits, mindsets, and routines…and soon the breakthroughs you made with Ayahuasca’s help fade away as you slip back into your old behaviours.

Or worse, you end up feeling uncertain or strange about part of your experience, which lingers once you return home. Having an expert guide to help you find value in your intense emotions is key to moving forward powerfully.

My first Ayahuasca retreat was in Peru back in 2008. At the time I was operating as the VP of Marketing at the software company I founded. My Ayahuasca experience in Peru was extraordinarily profound. I had no negative challenges whatsoever. However, within a week of returning to work, many of the bad habits that I had let go of started creeping back in. The insights and progress I’d made began to fade away.

Knowing what I know now, if I had an Ayahuasca experienced coach, I would have been able to stay the course and prevent the bad habits from creeping back in. I believe lost about 60% of the potential value.

Not Protecting Privacy

Imagine joining a group of 20-30 strangers, most of whom who don’t have professional reputations to protect and one of them makes a Facebook post that reveals your participation. As unlikely as this may sound, it is the reason many of our VIP clients choose to commission private ceremonies or join one of our carefully curated retreats. It’s just not worth the risk.

Ayahuasqueros who do not have experience working with VIPs, or know the participants personally, rarely have the leverage to enforce the strictest privacy rules.

Choosing The Right Ayahuasquero

Properly trained Ayahuasca facilitators are called Ayahuasqueros. Even a good Ayahuasquero for most is likely the wrong Ayahuasquero for a high-functioning individual.

The biggest mistake that you could inadvertently make is choosing a “lazy Ayahuasquero”- one who fails to screen every participant’s medical and mental health accurately.

There is only one serious threat to your well-being in an Ayahuasca ceremony. If the Ayahuasquero does not properly screen, and a person with a severe mental illness gets in, they could flip out in a way that creates a traumatising experience for everyone else.

A recent story from the summer of 2016 illustrates how bad it can get: Long story short, In the middle of the Ayahuasca ceremony, a guy seriously flips out. He became violent, and somebody called 911! Can you imagine being high on Ayahuasca and having the authorities arrive?

To be clear, it is very rare that Ayahuasca will not cause a mentally healthy individual to totally flip out. We have never seen it happen. This person had to have had a pre-existing mental illness that the Ayahuasquero did not properly screen for. All the Ayahuasquero we work thoroughly screen their participants, ensuring a secure session for all.

Here is one more way an Ayahuasquero can not live up to their commitment. The Ayahuasca itself can be too weak. In fact, contrary to popular belief, you are much more likely to have an underwhelming experience with no benefit than an overwhelming one. A clean, strong Ayahuasca brew made by a master botanist is an assurance you want up front, otherwise, all your efforts leading up to the retreat were for nothing.

What is Ayahuasca, exactly?

Ayahuasca is an Amazonian herbal tea, a combination of at least two plants, one containing the hallucinogen DMT which catalyses the visionary and healing effects. The experience of being on Ayahuasca is hard to describe objectively because the experience is so unique to the individual. Typically it is like being in a very vivid, often beautiful, often intense dream state. One spends most of the 5-hour experience lying down, only getting up to go to the bathroom as needed.

The results are often life changing, which is why so many are willing to face the discomfort and unknown that comes with drinking Ayahuasca. Westerners are using ayahuasca to heal a long list of health conditions, like emotional aloofness, childhood trauma, and depression, that conventional medicine, and therapy struggles to cure.

More recently, totally healthy, high functioning individuals have been working with Ayahuasca as a performance development accelerator.